If anyone's having a rough day...

[lucysmam]

You could have two students from school shouting your teacher name over the back fence! It could be worse 🤣🙈

Are your pupils your neighbours? Or why are they shouting your name over the fence?

You need to find out the students that are doing this

this is appalling and I can’t believe you’re taking it so lightly

I don’t think you’re realising how appalling this js

these students know your address, have sought you out and now behaving anti socially

That escalated quickly 😂

Well, or they’re seven years old and live next door?

That makes it less concerning but still appalling and needs to be addressed by the school

Erm, they are in fact 7 years old & realised yesterday I live 2 doors round the corner. They saw me taking in a takeaway delivery.

I'll deal with it with safeguarding on Monday morning.

There you are! I guessed right. Mildly annoying if it’s been going on for some time, but can you just stick your head over the fence and say ‘Zip it, Ethan and Ben!’

Good

Dad's taken them in to brush their teeth for bed. I'd have to get on the garden table to see over the fence which would take away from my street cred, obvs 🤣.

🤣 This reminds me of a school friend who lived next door to our pe teacher. She never used her garden just incase she saw the teacher 😆

I've told this story before...

Dh had retired from teaching, but I was still working.

First day of the summer holidays, we went to the cinema. On the way back to the car, as we walked hand in hand, there was a shout of "Weary! Ye're a SLUT!"

DH laughed as we got in the car, and asked "Which one of us was that aimed at?"

"Well, I hope it was me!"

"Why, what did they say?" (Dh was a tad deaf - one of the reasons he'd retired early.)

As we drove round, I saw a group of boys who would be moving into 6th yr when school returned and one eejit a year older who had just left.

"Oh, it's Johnny. That explains a lot!"

"Where?"

"Oh, that group over there. They're harmless. He's just an idiot."

"Right! Maybe you have to put up with this. I don't - I'm retired!"

DH stopped the car and jumped out. "Which one of you gutless bs thought you had the right to miscall my wife?"

At that point, the about to be 6th Yrs all sidled away into a bowling alley, leaving Johnny standing on his own.

"Eh...It wisnae us! It wiz some other boys ower there!"

"Aye, just what I thought. Gutless!" DH got back in the car and we drove home.

There's a bit more to the story than that, but the 6th Yrs looked highly embarrassed the next time I saw them.

Why is it a safeguarding issue? Teachers have to live somewhere and so do pupils 🙄

I thought that was a tad over the top too!

@Dollymylove as much as I enjoy my job, for the most part, I do not want these two sharing my address with the other 218 or so students! Or their parents.

Unless it's ok for that to happen since I'm not a child, with potential issues going on already 🤷‍♀️.

Oh dear!
At least it's primary, when kids usually like their teachers. We had two teachers (married couple) that lived close to the local social club when I was a teen. Their car got egged every time there was an event on (football presentation nights and birthday parties).
It must have been so miserable for them.